StillCreative
Eric Averitt hosts StillCreative to inspire through conversations with creative and innovative guests. Episodes are thought-provoking with actionable insights for listeners who want to find stillness, effectiveness, and creativity at work.
StillCreative
The Structure of Better
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My guest is Liberato Garced Torres, Data Management Specialist at Simon Property Group, where he designs data integration solutions and AI-driven tools for commercial real estate. Liberato spent nearly a decade as a building engineer before moving into cybersecurity, cloud architecture, and web development, a non-linear path that built a perspective on how physical and digital systems connect in ways most people never see.
At the time of this recording, Liberato is completing a master's degree in Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He is also an INCOSE-certified Associate Systems Engineering Professional.
As Liberato put it during our conversation: "If you don't accept that things can be better, they will never be better." That belief connects directly to one of the central ideas we explored, drawn from Donella Meadows' Thinking in Systems: the possibility that the system itself is the source of its own problems.
Liberato brings that lens to the StillCreative framework, exploring why blaming is easier than understanding and changing what is producing problems, and why humility and curiosity are prerequisites for seeing the whole picture. A question worth sitting with: when something isn't working, is it because of the people, or the structure they're operating inside?